Books & ideas

There May Be Evidence for This, But...

Benoît Peuch — 2024-07-02T16:22:46Z

Is scientific evaluation sufficient to improve educational practices? For many teachers, evidence-based policy constitutes an obstacle to their own practices because it relies on statistical generalizations without taking into account their professional intuitions.

Making Children into Adults

Bernard Schneuwly — 2024-04-16T11:59:20Z

Vygotsky is a major educational theorist credited with showing how the mind of the child is formed. In this book, Pascal Sévérac explains what Vygotsky's theory owes to Spinoza's.

The Plastic Reality of Capitalism

Fabien Eloire — 2024-03-14T08:04:00Z

Two hundred years after its emergence in the West, capitalism has become a culture in the broad sense, a way of life, and an ideology. It permeates all spheres of society, including work and politics, and insinuates itself in children through education and the family.

To Educate is to Teach to Die

Benoît Peuch — 2023-04-13T06:42:00Z

Through a meditation on what might constitute a Spinozist education, Pascal Sévérac considers the passage from childhood to adulthood as that from one nature to another and organizes the rules of a good education around the notion of affectivity.

The Unmaking of Caste

Tabea Schroer — 2020-12-14T08:00:00Z

Meritocracy claims that educational titles are vested on the basis of achievement and not inherited ascription. Examining an Indian elite education institution, Ajantha Subramanian shows how upper castes use this discourse to make their caste privilege invisible. The processes of the social (un) making of caste then serve the reproduction of inequality

Domination Among the Auditors

Gaëtan Flocco — 2019-11-04T08:00:00Z

How do we account for the “voluntary servitude” that reigns in auditing firms? A survey of their employees shows the cause can be found in the spirit of competition and the cult of elitism.

Grand Tourism: Educational Journeys in 18th Century Europe

Marion Amblard — 2018-10-29T08:00:00Z

The Grand Tour was a journey on the European continent undertaken by 17^th and 18^th-century British aristocrats to perfect their education. This book reveals the importance, within this trip, of a city until now overlooked by scholarship: Turin, a political and cultural crossroad.

Schooling in the United States

Roberta Garner — 2016-04-25T07:00:00Z

In the neoliberal restructuring of post-secondary education, issues in educational systems surfaced most strongly in the United States. This essay addresses U.S. schooling and the efforts to reform its institutions. If the task of reform at the local levels of primary and secondary education is daunting, educational reform in the US is increasingly focused on post-secondary education.

Schooling Ideals and Student Culture: the Case of India

Stephanie Leder — 2015-05-25T05:30:00Z

How are citizenship values translated into schooling processes in India? Rich ethnographies reveal how diversely students perceive, reproduce and subvert schooling intentions in a highly stratified society under the influence of peer cultures, media and marketing.

Catholics and gender

Anthony Favier — 2015-03-16T06:30:00Z

The criticism of “gender theory” that is expressed in some Catholic circles is not just a travesty of gender studies: it detracts from the development of a feminist theology and current efforts at establishing a dialogue within the Catholic Church.